单词 | officialty |
释义 | officialtyn. 1. Christian Church. = officiality n. 1. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > [noun] > office of prelacya1387 pontificals?a1475 officialshipc1475 bishopric1520 high priesthood1535 superintendence1561 prelateship1570 pontificality1593 officiality1597 prelature1602 prelation1611 prelaty1641 pontificacy1665 pontificate1702 officialty1720 presulate1853 1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) II. 155/1 And before that he was an Advocate about Eleven Years; having withal the officialty of Surry. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 163 An Officialty to an Archdeacon. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Arches The Judge of the Court of the Arches, is called the Dean of the Arches..with which Officialty, is commonly joined a peculiar Jurisdiction over thirteen Parishes in London, termed a Deanery. 1829 W. N. Darnell (title) Two Charges delivered in the years 1828 and 1829 to the Clergy of the officialty of the Dean and Chapter of Durham. 1865 Catholic World Oct. 17/2 The diocesan officialty of Paris on this occasion refused at first to intervene. 1906 M. Sloan tr. C. Bémont & G. Monod Medieval Europe 496 In order to check them, bishops established, dating from 1170, the so-called ‘officialty’, an ecclesiastical court into which came all clerical and matrimonial suits. 2. Official status, position, or behaviour; officialism. rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > [noun] > officialism or bureaucracy red tape1736 bureaucracy1815 bureauism1829 red-tapery1831 red-tapism1834 officiality1841 functionarism1842 officialism1849 red-tapedom1850 red tapeworm1851 tapism1852 green-ferret1853 officialty1853 paperasserie1856 paperchase1856 paper-chasing1876 departmentalism1886 Whitehallism1915 striped trousers1958 1853 Littell's Living Age 23 Apr. 207/2 Standing thus amid a crowd of emulous rogues, with his feet on the lowest steps of the ladder of officialty. 1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta I. ii. 32 When pleasant malt liquor..had..neutralised some of the effects of officialty. 1994 Federal News Service (Nexis) 27 Sept. We believe it would be a serious mistake to derail this basic policy of several administrations by introducing what China would undoubtedly perceive as officialty in our relations with Taiwan. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1720 |
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